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Re: Ascendin SLS, MedEmpowered

Posted by yesac on June 6, 2005, at 0:40:58

In reply to Re: Ascendin, posted by med_empowered on June 5, 2005, at 16:12:35

Hi-- thanks for your responses. I guess to say a little more about why I'm interested.... well, basically I think I am attracted to the antidepressant/antipsychotic features of the drug, and because it's supposed to be useful for resistant depression and agitated depression. Those two phrases pretty much sum me up! I have not been diagnosed as bipolar, but my belief is that I may have some kind of bipolar spectrum thing going on, or at least depression with certain hypomanic features (whatever you want to call that). I have tried MANY drugs. None of the *newer* antidepressants have been helpful at all. A few have been worse than not being on them-- more agitated or activated or more depressed. I've been on Parnate, which was awful for me. The only TCA I've tried is desipramine/norpramin. I was only on that for a few weeks and stopped taking it when I found that I was unable to pee for many hours. Atypical antipsychotics are okay, but for the most part make me too damn tired. I hated Abilify (too activating) and I haven't tried Geodon. I'm on Seroquel now but considering going off because I just feel too tired and it's so hard to get up at any reasonable hour, which I can't stand. But I definitely need something for sleep--- I could go back to trazodone which I took for several years before starting Seroquel last November.

Soooo... I'm not really sure what to do. I have a pretty severe, suicidal, agitated, aggressive depression. It's maybe gotten slightly better recently due, I think, to lithium. But I'm still pretty troubled and I just don't believe that lithium by itself is going to do the trick. So, I am looking, as always, for other options.


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